Construction laborers can have a wide range of physical labor tasks on construction sites include digging holes, mixing concrete, cleaning and preparing jobsites, erecting scaffolding and even ...

The construction industry is facing a perfect storm in the labor arena. Not only is it harder to find workers, but employers are having to pay those they do hire – many underqualified – steadily ...

Chris Coleman is partner-in-charge of St. Louis-based accounting firm RubinBrown’s Construction Services Group. Opinions are the author’s own. In an already tight construction labor market, raids by U ...

Deportations and inflation are worsening a labor shortage that was already running rampant through the construction industry, hindering projects and adding to an already significant affordable housing ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

All you need to do is talk to just about any contractor today and you’ll hear the same overriding concern. It’s harder than ever to keep projects on schedule because of the shortage of construction ...

In the post-COVID world of construction, industry analysts and participants have focused considerable attention on material price escalation concerns and impacts caused by raw material shortages, ...

The construction industry in America is facing an extreme labor shortage, roughly 650,000 workers, slowing completion of construction projects from residential homes to infrastructure to hospitals.

The nation's highways, roads and streets are a major part of its infrastructure. Although the job requires the skills of professionals, such as engineers and surveyors, members of four distinct groups ...